André 🇵🇹🇧🇪

@malliberal @PMSBrinca Amigo MAL, baixar imposto não é subsidiar

🥩 O PS quer baixar o IVA dos produtos essenciais para zero. Ao fazê-lo, baixa para todos, para os que podem pagar e para os que não podem pagar. E, portanto, o bife Wagyu de €100/Kg (ou mais...) — exemplo óptimo dado pelo @PMSBrinca — que o CR7 consome iria ficar isento de IVA. Sendo esta uma medida de emergência para acudir a quem mais precisa, e não uma medida estrutural, o que faz sentido é ajudar quem realmente precisa. Os recursos não são ilimitados.

Two things contributed to the collapse of the Yugoslav economy. One was that Tito borrowed ungodly amounts of money from the IMF and Western banks, because he was convinced Capitalism would end within his lifetime, and therefore the loans would never have to be paid back.

non Schengen area of airports

@mestre_dobras @VotePortugal Dizer que uma música é má por ser música de rádio é bué engraçado. Mas concordo com o resto

@_andrenunes @VotePortugal A atuação foi péssima, desculpa. Os ângulos de câmara e a produção musical e visual foram o que lhes valeu. A moça até pode saber cantar, não duvido, mas a voz dela ontem fugiu-lhe para Cacilhas. É música de rádio, sem alma. Na minha opinião, claro.

Portugal has just failed to qualify for the Eurovision 2026 Grand Final... 😭

@mestre_dobras @VotePortugal Bélgica começou bué fraca mas tem grande refrão

@VotePortugal Muito injusto. A Bélgica foi um flop, a Polónia só tem voz, mas nada daquilo é polaco e a Lituânia... Meu Deus. Nunca consegui ouvir aquilo até ao fim. Para mim, a pior de todas.

@VotePortugal Awful, zero production, they could’ve at least shown subtitles for the lyrics

@knotyorsea @VDP_94 @europemaxxed

@VDP_94 @europemaxxed You can't just pick when to retire?

Belgium has had enough and is protesting against 67

@AletaValiant @ThatchEffendi youtu.be/I3bfQU1H-Hw?is…

@ThatchEffendi Portuguese doesn’t sound like any Slavic language. Not even a little bit 😁

Two people come to move a cupboard into the house. I end up helping out. They're speaking what's clearly a Slavic language but they don't look Russian or Polish, and it's not Serbian. Slovenian? Bulgarian? "Where are you from?" "New Jersey but we're speaking Portuguese."

É proibido, mas pode-se fazer. E o que é que acontece a quem o faz? Nada. A Administração Pública não precisa de cumprir a lei em Portugal. Poderia ter dado mais 20 exemplos.

@levelsio In Portugal it’s even worse because the invoice needs to have your tax id number (NIF) or it will not be accepted by the tax authorities. Also you are legally obligated to have paper copies of all invoices 🫠

Americans might be "why would you need an invoice?" which is also why it's so hard to get invoices from American companies and also why you get the meme about Germans who have the most strict IRS in the world and will always email you a year later "rechnung bitte!!!" (invoice please!) So in the rest of the world accounting usually works like this: You spend $1, now you need to account for that $1 with a bank or card transaction which you tie to an invoice/receipt If you can't account for that with an invoice/receipt, your accountant won't account it as an expense, so it won't be a cost, so it won't reduce your profit, so you will pay more tax If I can't account $100,000 I spend as a cost for my business with an invoice, I will pay ~$20,000 in corporate tax for that money, which was a cost infact! No way around it In my opinion this accounting only helps to reduce GDP, because hours spend every month by a business owner like me could be spend building more cool stuff which people pay for and which give me more money In another way it reduces GDP because as you see it makes me stop spending my money on costs, I try reduce my costs to $0 not just because I like it, but because bookkeeping for expenses is such a heinous waste of my time Expense accounting in the rest of the world should work like it does in America: you spend money, there's a bank/card transaction, and that's sufficient. Then if the IRS decides to audit you, you simply go back and get the invoices then, not when you spend the money, much easier! Stop wasting business owner's precious time 😊

@gladtobeCDN @patrickc @asymmetricinfo @pietergaricano @paulkrugman In Europe it’s literally all money printing, in the US they still build stuff

@patrickc @asymmetricinfo @pietergaricano @paulkrugman Yes, but how much of the “wealth “ is created by the annual deficit of $2-$2.5 trillion?

Luis (and @pietergaricano) are correct below, and @paulkrugman is much too sanguine about Europe's challenges. As it happens, the same wealth point that Luis mentions also struck me when I traveled to Nashville a few weeks ago.

@JoHei13 Salário mínimo mais baixo criava desemprego? Antes pelo contrário

Salário mínimo passava, e não estou a gozar, para 500€ com estas medidas. Desemprego nos 20-30% facil

@JMarceloSA @luiscab200 Isso já acontece hoje em dia lol

@luiscab200 Se for pensar assim, vamos deixar as casas sem isolamento térmico, porque ficam mais caras 🤷‍♂️

Ambos estes bairros estão a 750 metros de uma estação de metro. A diferença é que o bairro da direita foi construído depois da lei que obriga novas construções a ter 1 ou 2 lugares de estacionamento por apartamento.

@realandrerlopes minhotos são galegos

Vocês estão a mandar da pesada na veia se acham um minhoto mais silencioso que um bávaro

@TasteAtlas Iberian domination

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@JoelMar66169181 @donocooperativa O país é que vota neles

@donocooperativa Não é o país que não quer, é aquele lunático do Ventura aliado à esquerda fedorenta, que impede a mudança. Porque colocaram o interesse partidário acima do interesse do país. Com gente assim, Portugal está condenado!

Faço minhas cada uma das palavras de Sérgio Sousa Pinto. Tem razão, ponto.🥸

@EnigmaFund Government is only worried about appeasing to the population and wealthy foreigners are not well seen by the natives so you'll be easy scapegoats for all the current issues like lack of housing

It occurs to me that Portugal, in my humble opinion, is one of the very best places in the world to live, maybe even the best. There are other places that are wonderful to visit, but Portugal is indeed one of the finest choices possible. It also feels like it's at a tipping point: there are changes that are happening, and it's imperative that Portugal protects its economy and chooses to attract the best of the best that the world has to offer. However, it also occurs to me that this needs to translate into two important things as well: 1. Portuguese people need to economically benefit. Newcomers must pay much higher rates for their services and pave the way for a new standard in the minimum wage. We should all live well and enjoy the fruits of the land. Not value extractive like an engorged leech. 2. Portugal should incentivize the value creators, disincentivize the extractors. The mistake would be: Make it as hard as possible to move to Portugal for everyone. If you’re moving here to TAKE JOBS AWAY from the Portuguese: kindly don’t. If you’re moving here to enjoy the wonders of this land and the inject value and capital, raising the quality of living for the Portuguese… and making the country even MORE attractive to move to: come on over red rover. The Portuguese government have an opportunity here. I pray they make the right choices. After all: there are always options.

@chocoberry_pup They are interested in making money so let them build more

@_andrenunes Landlords and house sellers are not interested in that. That is the whole point

Nonsense, the housing crisis is worse because know dipshit landlords and sellers know they can just increase prices cause some american or rich northern european who wants a "slow life" with good weather and food will pay for them, since they work remotes to richer countries

@chocoberry_pup Making the existing houses more affordable to the average Portuguese person

New buildings and houses are being made to target to that luxury market and not affordable to your average portuguese person